1.6. The Mountain Shortcut

Phalen, the friendly dwarf spy. Dead.

Out from behind a rock stepped a dwarf, clad in Imperial armour. He called the gang over and told them that he too was on a mission to get rid of the orcs, but his comrades have just been wiped out by a rockfall. Nonetheless, he knows a secret path through the mountain to a vantage point above the orc camp.

Just then they heard a party of orcs tramping towards them through the mist, and while Baron wants to stay and murder them all, the gang convinces him that they really should take the shortcut through the mountains.

Under the mountain they encounter a flaming skull, which attacks them, until Ulrich, at Baron’s command, smashes it into a million pieces with his axe. They find some cool stuff, like bracers of defence, a ring of fire resistance, a crown of disguise, and an invisibility potion.
Flameskull. Toast.

They proceeded on to a room where a bunch of weirdos in robes had been hung by their ankles over lava vents. Before they noticed, their dwarf escort had run ahead, leaving them behind as the lava was rising.

They ran after him, stumbling onto the feet of a giant who was already kinda pissed. The dwarf was there, so they murdered him. They evaded the giant and made it to the top of the room, where they could see an escape door, but realized that the dwarf, who they’d murdered back at the bottom, had the key. Dr Sleaze made a daring sprint down to retrieve it, and the gang stumbled out the door just in time.

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